Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
2025 Education Prize winners Yearly celebrations
Filter in a variety of ways including year to find our latest winners along with those from previous years.
Hayley Simon
University College London, UK
For outstanding and innovative research on the conservation of Mary Rose iron cannonballs, which has produced unique insights to the field of conse...
2020 Ronald Belcher Award
High-Performance Nanozyme Designer
For the development of rational design strategies for high performance nanozymes and exploration of their biomedical applications.
2023 Dalton Horizon Prizes
Holger Braunschweig
University of Wuerzburg
For contributions to the chemistry of reactive low-oxidation-state main-group molecules, including their applications in catalysis.
2021 Dalton open prize: Mond-Nyholm Prize for Inorganic Chemistry
House of Science New Zealand
For the development of a vast library of hands-on, bilingual science resource kits that enable thousands of primary school teachers across New Zeal...
2022 Horizon Prizes for Education
Hua Wang
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Winner 2026: For significant contributions to the field of biomaterials in their early career.
2026 Biomaterials Science Lectureship
Iain McCulloch
Princeton University
For advances in the design, synthesis and innovative application of functional materials in optics, electronics, and energy.
2020 Interdisciplinary Prizes
In-cell Organometallic Redox Catalysis
For pioneering work on catalysis of redox reactions in cancer cells by synthetic organometallic complexes.
2022 Dalton Horizon Prizes
Inorganic Amorphous Nanomaterials
For innovative methods for controllable synthesis of materials combining high strength and high toughness.
2024 Dalton Horizon Prizes
Iseult Lynch
University of Birmingham, UK
For enhanced understanding of the role of biomolecule-nanomaterials interactions and the ecological corona in environmental fate and toxicity of na...
2020 John Jeyes Award
Jakob Franke
Leibniz University Hannover
Winner 2026: For making a significant contribution to a natural product related area of the chemical sciences in their independent research careers.
2026 Natural Product Reports Emerging Investigator Lectureship
Jean-Luc Br茅das
University of Arizona, USA
For seminal contributions to our fundamental understanding of the electronic properties of organic materials for electronics and photonics, and for...
2021 Centenary Prizes for Chemistry and Communication
Jenny Nelson
Imperial College London, UK
For contributions to the understanding and development of novel electronic materials for solar energy conversion.
2024 Faraday open prize: Faraday Lectureship Prize
Jessie Stow
Astex Pharmaceuticals
For outstanding contributions to drug discovery through the introduction of a viable biocatalytic workflow able to generate useful quantities of sy...
2024 RSC Apprentice Prizes
Joanne Davies
For work as an early career teacher to make science inclusive of all children, enabling them to see themselves as scientists, and ensuring every ch...
2025 Early Career Prize for Excellence in Primary Education
Johannes Broichhagen, Kilian Ro脽mann, Ramona Birke, Joshu...
Paper: Red and far-red cleavable fluorescent dyes for self-labelling enzyme protein tagging and interrogation of GPCR co-internalization
2025 RSC Chemical Biology Outstanding Early Career Research Award
Jonathan Steed
Durham University, UK
For work in the understanding, control and application of the assembly of molecular materials in the crystal and gel state.
2021 Tilden Prizes for Chemistry
Joshua Piggott
St Nicholas' C of E First School
For dedication, enthusiasm and effectiveness in the delivery of quality-first science pedagogy for children aged 4–9, while breaking down the stere...
2021 Early Career Prize for Excellence in Primary Education
Junwang Tang
Tsinghua University
For the discovery of efficient photocatalysts for clean and renewable fuel synthesis.
2021 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prizes for Chemistry
Kai S Exner
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Winner: 2025 PCCP Emerging Investigator Lectureship - for outstanding contributions to physical chemistry, chemical physics, or biophysical chemist...
2025 PCCP Emerging Investigator Lectureship
Katie Bell
Sellafield Ltd
For validating complex methods for the analysis of special nuclear materials.
2020 Industry Technician of the Year
Yearly celebrations
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